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Every Friday morning at Haley House Bakery Cafe in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, something quietly radical happens. Volunteers who spent the previous evening in prayer groups...
For three years, the members of Grace Community Church in Wichita, Kansas, ran a Saturday soup kitchen. They served meals, took photos for the church...
In 1965, Millard Fuller was a thirty-year-old millionaire in Montgomery, Alabama, with a Lincoln Continental in the driveway and a marriage falling apart. He attended...
Every Sunday morning, the congregation of Grace Fellowship in Baton Rouge sang three hymns, bowed for a long pastoral prayer, and drove home past the...
For three years, the cracked sidewalk on Maplewood Drive forced elderly residents to walk in the street. The city had bigger priorities. First Baptist Church...
By age twenty-nine, Millard Fuller was a self-made millionaire. He owned a mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, a Lincoln Continental, a lake house, and a cattle...
Every January, Grace Fellowship in south Memphis held a twenty-four-hour prayer and fasting vigil. The sanctuary would fill with worship music, the smell of candles,...
In 1785, William Wilberforce was a rising star in British Parliament — wealthy, charming, a faithful churchgoer who enjoyed fine dinners and fashionable company. Then...
In 1978, Coach Wayne Gordon moved into North Lawndale on Chicago's West Side — not to commute in for weekend charity, but to stay. The...
Every Sunday morning, Becca Stevens preached from the pulpit at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville. Every Monday morning, she unlocked the doors of Thistle Farms,...
Every January, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia, held a three-day prayer and fasting retreat. Members gathered in the fellowship hall, sang worship songs, journaled,...
In 1889, a young Indian scholar named Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India — a home for child widows whom...
For six years, Susan Albright fasted every Wednesday during Lent. She skipped lunch, drank only water, and spent her break reading devotionals in her car...
Every Sunday morning, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia held a prayer vigil for their struggling neighborhood. They sang. They fasted. They wept at the...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered for...
In 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his comfortable dormitory in Kobe and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in...
Marcus DeLeon had been a faithful church member for twenty years — never missed a Sunday, tithed to the dollar, fasted every Lent. Then one...
Every Sunday morning for thirty years, Margaret Chen arrived early at her church in Knoxville, Tennessee, polishing the communion table and arranging the hymnals with...
Every Friday, Maria Sandoval packed two lunches — one for herself and one she quietly slipped into the backpack of a boy in her third-grade...
For three years, the members of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Memphis held a Wednesday night fast. They gathered in their sanctuary, sang worship songs...
In 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums —...
In the 1750s, a prosperous New Jersey shopkeeper named John Woolman closed his ledger book, stepped out from behind his counter, and began walking away...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Baptist minister with a doctorate in Greek New Testament — drove his family into the red clay countryside outside...
On Christmas Day, 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums of Kobe. The neighborhood...
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